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How Silent

By Kenneth Pobo

Posted on June 8, 2026

a hummingbird
sips from
our feeder before
        flying away
   returning

fifteen minutes
later an impatient
diner 
she glides
          tilts

finds a red
lobelia and
goes there

silently

– Kenneth Pobo

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